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March 13, 2015
FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — A military judge has sentenced an Army sergeant to two years in prison and a…
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March 12, 2015
FERGUSON, Missouri (AP) — Two officers were shot in front of the Ferguson Police Department early Thursday as demonstrators gathered…
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March 11, 2015
Sigma Alpha Epsilon’s international headquarters may be in Illinois, but the fraternity’s roots are firmly planted in the antebellum South.…
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March 8, 2015
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Peaceful protesters in Madison took to the college town’s streets with chants of “Black Lives Matter”…
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March 7, 2015
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Ferguson Police Chief Tom Jackson was still on the job Friday, two days after a government…
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March 6, 2015
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. employers extended a healthy streak of hiring in February by adding 295,000 jobs, the 12th straight…
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March 6, 2015
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A former substitute teacher convicted of showing a movie including graphic sex and violence to a…
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March 5, 2015
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department will not prosecute a white former police officer in the fatal shooting of…
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March 3, 2015
ORMOND BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A central Florida man faces hate crime charges after authorities say he told a man…
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February 26, 2015
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Three more young white men, all part of a group that repeatedly searched Mississippi’s capital city…
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February 25, 2015
TORONTO (AP) — Chris Brown tweeted Tuesday that he’s been denied entry into Canada and that his concerts in Montreal…
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February 25, 2015
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Dori J. Maynard, a journalist and champion of diversity in news coverage, died Tuesday at her…
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February 24, 2015
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Alaska on Tuesday became the third U.S. state to legalize the recreational use of marijuana, but…
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February 23, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) — Oscar viewership was down 16 percent from last year and reached its lowest point since 2009,…
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February 23, 2015
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Edmund Pettus Bridge stood center stage in both the performance and acceptance speeches by John…
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February 22, 2015
Markice Moore, an actor best known for his role as Andrew on season three of The Walking Dead, is recovering…
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February 21, 2015
KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — An armed group in South Sudan has abducted at least 89 boys in a northern state,…
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February 21, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) — Fox News Channel host Bill O’Reilly is contesting allegations that he embellished his past as a…
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February 21, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) — Activists, actors, and politicians will remember civil rights leader Malcolm X with a ceremony at the…
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February 20, 2015
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats on Thursday assailed former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani for questioning President Barack Obama’s love…